We reject any circumvention of prisoners' exchange deal: Sanaa

The Head of the Prisoners' Committee in Sanaa, Abdul Qadir Al-Murtada, said on Saturday that "the mercenaries of aggression have thwarted all UN efforts to make the agreement on prisoners succeed, the last of which was a round of negotiations a month ago in the Jordanian capital."

Al-Murtada told Yemeni news agency SABA, "Despite signing an agreement with the forces of aggression and their mercenaries in March, which stipulated an exchange of more than 2,200 prisoners from both sides, the intransigence and obstruction of the mercenaries of aggression prevented its implementation."

He pointed out that "the prisoner file has witnessed a complete stagnation at the local and international levels since the beginning of the international truce," adding that "the mercenaries of [Saudi-led] aggression, in addition to their failure to implement the UN agreement, stopped all exchanges that were agreed upon locally," and "We had hoped that the truce period would witness a complete breakthrough for this humanitarian file."

Al-Murtada pointed out that “the forces of aggression are currently seeking to release the Saudi prisoners and a number of the mercenary leaders in exchange for a group of our prisoners and to postpone the rest of the agreement for another period in a clear circumvention of the agreement, but we rejected this proposal,” noting, “We assured the United Nations of readiness to implement the agreement in full."

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